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Collaboration via Slime Mold

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In this highly collaborative activity, learners design and complete a controlled experiment which attempts to answer a simple question about the slime mold Physarum. Learners present their findings to the group, citing evidence of each other's work in their final report. Learners model scientific research in that their narrow area of research gives one fact of a complete picture of this organism. Learners also practice making agar plates. Adult supervision is recommended.

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A project of University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science. Major funding was provided by the National Science Foundation (Award #0735007), The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and Oracle.